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The links that follow below will take you to video recordings of Michele Bachmann making controversial statements in public forums during her run for congress. The following video segment records Senator Bachmann telling a lie while testifying in the name of Jesus Christ before a congregation of Christian believers. The lie is told towards the very end of the video clip. Reviewing her life since the age of sixteen and speaking of how God called her to run for the Minnesota State Senate in 2000, she tells the people assembled in the church: “And in the midst of all this, as if we didn't have enough to do, He called me to run for the Minnesota State Senate. I had no idea, and no desire to be in politics. Absolutely none.” The statement is false, and Bachmann knew it was false when she made it. A year prior to her candidacy for the State Senate, Bachmann had run a vigorous campaign to elective office. The deception of the congregation was deliberate because Bachmann could not have “simply forgot” about her unsuccessful 1999 bid for office. Bachmann ran as a GOP endorsed candidate for a seat on the Stillwater School Board. She campaigned for that office publicly and on local Christian radio. The race received news coverage in major and local papers because it is unusual for Stillwater School Board candidates to accept official party endorsements; this small town race is traditionally non-partisan. Bachmann’s campaign for school board was ultimately unsuccessful; this may have been her reason for omitting any mention of it in her “testimony for Christ” and deceiving the congregation by falsely claiming that her decision to enter political life was initially spurred by a direct call from God in the year 2000. In this video clip Bachmann also speaks of other visions and commands she has received from God. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If6ScJ-7MWs (Recorded Saturday, October 14, 2006, Senator Michele Bachmann at Pastor Mac Hammond's Living Word Christian Center, in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota.) During the following video segment, Bachmann tells the assembled congregation that God told her to run for Congress. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ4wtwcrybM (Recorded Saturday, October 14, 2006, Senator Michele Bachmann at Pastor Mac Hammond's Living Word Christian Center, in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota.) In the following video segment, Bachmann appears in a congressional debate and states (falsely) that there is a controversy among scientists about whether evolution is a fact or not and states (falsely) that many “Nobel Prize-winning” scientists believe in the “intelligent design” theory of creationism. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Damah0KH-Co In the following video segment, Bachmann appears in a congressional debate and states that Terry Schiavo was “a woman who was healthy” at the time the decision was taken to allow her to die. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f13Dj2HaRWg In the following video segment, Bachmann appears in a congressional debate and indicates that she does not believe in global warming. | ||
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BACHMANN: Controversy On Video